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Apr25
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Spring is finally here. Enjoy the good vibes to come with some free bagels and coffee courtesy the Computer Science Department. Mix and mingle with fellow CS students and faculty every last Thursday of the month.
TIME Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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May1
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lessIt looks like AI is here to stay. Not only that, its impact on society will rival or exceed that of the world wide web. However, we are likely just scratching the surface and AI is still in its infancy. The expected growth is immense and there is an active arms race in both hardware and algorithms. Nvidia dominates hardware today, largely because we are still in the training era, where time-to-accuracy at any cost rules. In this era, algorithmic innovations offer the biggest benefits and require a robust programmable platform (i.e., Nvidia GPUs) upon which to innovate. However, there are signs the inference era is imminent, where the rules are different. The projected scales of AI inference deployments will demand highly efficient hardware. With AI touching all layers of the computing stack today, we can leverage algorithm-hardware co-design to uncover interesting opportunities and trends for efficiency via customization and acceleration. This talk presents an overview of a NSF-funded project we had proposed to develop a cloudless universal translator, which we thought eventually possible given the state of ML technology at the time. Throughout
the project, we designed three custom AI SoCs--targeting automatic speech recognition (FlexASR), natural language processing (EdgeBERT), and on-device learning/fine-tuning (CAMEL). These designs highlight ways to maximize energy efficiency given the probabilistic nature of machine learning algorithms. Finally, the talk closes with some thoughts on
chiplets and carbon.TIME Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION L440, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Catherine Healey catherine.healey@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
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May1
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lessWednesday / CS Distinguished Lecture
May 1st / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514Speaker
Tong Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignTalk Title
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TIME Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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May8
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lessWednesday / CS Distinguished Lecture
May 8th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514Speaker
Monica Lam, Stanford UniversityTalk Title
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TBATIME Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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May9
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lessWant to join the decision-makers? Register for Northwestern University's Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) Program Information Session and learn how you can enhance your knowledge of IT and gain the business management skills you need to direct effective IT strategy.
TIME Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
CONTACT Svetlana Korzeniowski msit@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Program
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May10
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lessFriday / CS Distinguished Lecture
May 10th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514Speaker
Shafi Goldwasser; Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California BerkeleyTalk Title
Trust, Backdoor Vulnerabilities and Possible MitigationsAbstract
Cryptographic tools and models enable to trust the use of technology platforms controlled by worst case computationally bounded adversaries. In this talk I will use cryptographic modeling and tools to view trust dilemmas in various phases of the machine learning pipelines. We will touch on privacy in the training stage, verification of properties of
machine learning models, and the possibility of achieving robustness in presence of backdoors.Biography
Shafi Goldwasser is Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Berkeley. Goldwasser is also the RSA Professor (post tenure) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Goldwasser holds a B.S. Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1979), and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley (1984).
Goldwasser's contributions include the introduction of probabilistic encryption, interactive zero knowledge protocols, elliptic curve primality testings, hardness of approximation proofs for combinatorial problems, combinatorial property testing, and pseudo deterministic algorithms.
Goldwasser was the recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 2012, the Gödel Prize in 1993 and in 2001, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1996, the RSA Award in Mathematics in 1998, the ACM Athena Award for Women in Computer Science in 2008, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2010, the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 2011, the Simons Foundation Investigator Award in 2012, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2018. Goldwasser is a member of the NAS, NAE, AAAS, the Russian Academy of Science, the Israeli Academy of Science, the London Royal Mathematical Society and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Goldwasser holds honorary degrees from Ben Gurion University, Bar Ilan University, Carnegie Mellon University, Haifa University, University of Oxford, and the University of Waterloo, and has received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Barnard College Medal of Distinction.
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Cryptography, Complexity, Probabilistic AlgorithmsZoom: TBA
TIME Friday, May 10, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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May30
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TIME Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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May30
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TIME Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION TBA, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
